Displaced by mother nature: Climate refugees & IDPs have been here

The Day After Tomorrow that became a popular movie in 2004 is no longer fiction or an event of the future it is present day news.

Mother Nature again has been dropping her bombs (physically and metaphorically) on both coasts of the United States relying on the four elements: Earth, wind, water and fire. None of these have hit the U.S. in any particular order. These climatic "bombs"  if one was to imagine climate riding in a tank comes via mudslides, wildfires, chilling arctic winds and deep freezes and a new type of cyclone the bombogensis or bomb cyclone; the unofficial name for the January Winter storm Grayson. Bombogensis itself is the beginning of the deadly cyclone of ice that turned New York and the whole New England region into a freezer and made the East Coast experience a mini Ice Age. The tundra weather caused a pipe to burst and flood the international terminal at JFK after the airport suspended flights the day before. JFK remains the busiest airport in the U.S. for international and local flights and couldn't shut down entirely since thousands of passengers were still disembarking from planes and stuck at the airport. Texas, Florida and the Carolinas also experience snow fall for the firstime in 80 years. The U.S. has been in such a deep freeze in the East, Midwest and Southeast that they are colder than Siberia, Russia and Mars is warmer than Ohio and Pennsylvania. Both regions continue to be in a deep freeze that has been responsible for some 15 deaths not including the homeless. In California, people are still recovering from the wildfires in both North and South California that has displaced and dispossessed thousands of people of their homes and livelihoods. The residents of the Napa Valley and now Santa Barbara-Montecito have been staying with relatives and moving further away to seek shelter in other cities. The mudslide in Montecito, buried have of the city and killed 22 people.

Rich or Poor, the Earth's anger is universal

Despite Montecito and Napa Valley being two of the wealthier parts of California, climate change has proven multiple time that it doesn't discriminate between the super rich and the poor. Everyone is a target. It is also notable that the most environmental friendly and "green" policy states are facing the brunt of the climatic chaos across the U.S. and new levels of weather patterns not seen in a century. There was also a deadly winter storm that crisscrossed the Netherlands and Germany respectfully killing 5 people and ripping the roofs off of buildings, downing trees and sent pedestrians rolling across the ground.

Prior to this onslaught in the U.S., in 2009 Haiti was hit by 9.5 earthquake, one of the largest in the Carribean and history. The earthquake hit in the near center of Haiti and has displaced some half a millon people. Many Haitians still live in the makeshift IDP camps to this day in parts of Port au Prince and other cities such as Jacemel. It is common knowledge that the billions sent Haiti were of course that "went missing" or were squandered by the NGOs, many aid agencies including the Clinton Foundation and hardly any amount reached the displaced Haitians in need of immediate help. Many Haitians who were able to stay with relatives or migrate to other countries did so. Haitians went to Brazil for work and the U.S. where some 55,000 were granted temporary protected status or TPS. Since the TPS expired earlier this year, Haitians under TPS have been treated by the current Trump Administration as personas non grata. Like the Salvadorenos who were also granted TPS after a 2001 earthquake in El Savador sent 250,000 Salvaderenos to the U.S., have also become unwanted persons in Trump's America. It should come as a surprise to no one as Trump had shown the world who he is and the lack of remorse for those affected by climate change who aren't mainland Americans. The Boricuas or Puerto Ricans are still feeling the affects Hurricane Maria and are still displaced nearly six months after and experience continual power cuts.

The movie San Andreas is named for a fault line one of three major fault lines that California sits on, imagines the big one earthquake striking the entire state of California. Currently the state is dealing with wildfires and now frequent  mini earthquakes around 3.6 on the rector scale. Mexico has been on the receiving end of the larger Earthquakes measuring at 6.3. The most recent earthquake in 2017 was felt from Mexico City to Oaxaca.